"bleakness" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to signify a feeling of sadness or despair, for example: The bleakness of the situation filled everyone in the room with gloom.
"To have such a sense of hopelessness, bleakness.
Both the drama and the documentary go heavy not just on the sideburns but on the bleakness of working-class life in those 10 years.
The bleakness of "Boule de Suif" is typical of Maupassant, who considered life "brutal, incoherent, disjointed, full of inexplicable, illogical and contradictory disasters".
SEEKING solace in international affairs from domestic bleakness is becoming as much a Brownite gambit as it was a Blairite one.
Kreuger, it added grimly, in seeking to be a "force for good", was crushed by the bleakness of his time.So when The Economist, three weeks later, reported that chartered accountants had discovered "deception and manipulation of accounts" in his business empire, this paper was not alone in feeling bitterly humiliated.
For the present, for all the bleakness of the view from Abu Ghraib, both alternatives look plausible.
"The Love-charm of Bombs" excels in demonstrating that these years of bleakness and loss were also, for a fortunate few, a time of extraordinary excitement and literary inspiration.
On the day of the exchange, a suicide-bomber on a bus near the official residence of Israel's prime minister killed at least ten people.And yet the very bleakness of today's outlook for Arab-Israeli peace may be forcing the players to reassess their priorities.
But, as they labour in relentless weather, the creeping bleakness of their loveless marriage gradually begins to fill Harriet with terror.In this section The unknown archipelago A classic on killing A bug's game King of the castle Number one detective agent Bad blood on the Croisette Rhapsody in gold ReprintsJoseph's discovery of gold—"the colour"—in a creek unleashes an unwavering obsession.
As the narrative moves between past and present between past tense and present tense and between recollected events and dramatised scenes the spreading bleakness is lightened by enjoyable observations of Edinburgh and a background cast of students, university bureaucrats and overly cheerful television presenters.
Mr Siti's own father, a trade unionist, often took refuge in the very mountains that his son has painted, in all their imposing bleakness.
